This is the start of a king size quilt for my friends M+M. The majority will be solids, but I am putting some different prints in too. The inspiration came from Silly Boo Dilly and I am quite excited about it!

A few improv blocks to get started.

A few more...

Here are some of the blocks laid out with some all print blocks interspersed. I will post an image of the concept that I drew up in Illustrator.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

I arrived home from Ithaca to three packs of fabric! This is all for my next big commission. A king size quilt in solids. I am really excited to get going on it! I have a lot of freedom on this one and am very happy to be working with a solid palette.

I spent most of the last week in Ithaca with the fabulous Lady J and when we were driving around downtown I did a rubber neck at a little shop with a handmade sign and wonky letters in the window. It was a little boutique craft shop called Homespun, and it was a gem! I am not a knitter, but it made me wish I was!

There was a great selection of knitting and quilting books, lots of needle sizes, buttons, fabric! I indulged in some Hope Valley, and some of Ty Pennington's new line, most of it is for yet to be planned projects, but the pinky-reds are going to be napkins. I think the rich colour will be gorgeous on the harvest table.